Religion
Acts: Being grieved that they taught the people
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Religion
Hirelings without remorse or pain
Dare to their passions sacrifice
The truth, the precious souls of men,
And bar their passage to the skies.
The preacher's mouth, the hearer's ears,
They stop through a malignant zeal,
And strive as Satan's messengers
Heaven to defraud, and people hell.
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